Frank Gallacher
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Biography: Frank Gallacher (7 April 1943 – 23 February 2009) was a Scottish-Australian actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland
Birthday: April 07, 1943
Deathday: February 23, 2009
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Gender: Male
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Dark City
Overview: A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.
Genres: Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-27
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Dallas Doll
Overview: Dallas, an American golf tutor, arrives in a quiet Sydney suburb to teach at the local school and sets about causing chaos with the family she stays with.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-03
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Amy
Overview: Amy's father, Franco, was a popular rock musician accidentally electrocuted while performing on stage. The psychological trauma leaves Amy mute and deaf. So the 8-year-old is brought by her mother, Tanya, to Melbourne to diagnose the reasons for her continued silence.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-27
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One Perfect Day
Overview: Tommy Matisse, a gifted musician, undertakes an odyssey of self-discovery and tragedy in Melbourne's dance music scene.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-19
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Rust
Overview: In the midst of a midlife crisis of faith, a man finds hope where he least expects it – his hometown. James Moore (Golden Globe nominee Corbin Bernsen) is a former pastor who returns home to discover a family new to the area has been killed in a mysterious fire, and his childhood friend is implicated in the murder. Convinced of his friend’s innocence, James sets out on a mission to find the truth… and in the process, rediscovers his own lost faith. An uplifting drama about faith, family, and the powerful ties that bind a community together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-07
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Deadly
Overview: A drama about Aboriginal deaths occurring in police custody.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-13
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Hammers Over the Anvil
Overview: Set in the summer of 1910 in Australia the film follows the story of 14 year old Alan Marshall (Alexander Outhread) as he stumbles out of childhood towards the exciting yet forbidding world of adulthood. For Alan, despite the effects of polio, there is only one passion in life - to become a great horseman just like his hero, the reclusive horse trainer East Driscoll (Russell Crowe). Alan is one of East's few friends and also one of the few who knows about the affair between East and the aristocratic English woman Grace McAlister (Charlotte Rampling). Things inevitably take a turn towards the tragic when East becomes determined to force Grace to leave her husband and run away with him. Hammers Over The Anvil is an evocative coming of age film from Australian director Ann Turner.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-22
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Like It Is
Overview: A short film directed by Chris Begley and Tony D'Aquino.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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The John Sullivan Story
Overview: After his troopship is sunk in 1942, John Sullivan is saved by members of the Yugoslav group, the Chetniks. He is later sold to the opposing group, The Partisans. This is his life as a medic in civil war-torn Yugoslavia. A TV movie spin off from The Sullivans (1976).
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-05
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Proof
Overview: Martin, a young blind photographer, is divided between his friendship with restaurant worker Andy and the exclusive love that Celia—who is terribly jealous of this new friendship—has for him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-15
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Muggers
Overview: When two medical students find themselves dangerously indebted to a sadistic loan shark, they become embroiled in an illicit black-market organ transplant scam in order to save their lives. 'Muggers' is a twisted, hilarious, pitch-black comedy about friendship, poor choices and the drag of student debt.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-25
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The Humpty Dumpty Man
Overview: A story of intrigue, power, politics and murder set in Australia's national capital, Canberra.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Stepfather of the Bride
Overview: This is the story of a typical contemporary Australian family. Skye is getting married to Lachlan. They have to tell her mother, stepfather, father, step mother, his father, his new wife, his mother and her girlfriend. Not counting grandparents, aunt and friends. They live with Skye's stepfathers son and best mate who is in love with Skye.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-12
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Till Human Voices Wake Us
Overview: Sam and Silvy are best friends. One night, as they are watching a falling star while floating on their backs in a lake, Sylvy disappears from his side. Despite his best efforts, he cannot find her under water. Many years later, Sam, now a psychologist, returns to bury his father. Back in his hometown, he meets a woman called Ruby who reminds him in so many ways of his lost love.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-12
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A Royal Commission Into The Australian Economy
Overview: Dame Victoria Market, under instructions from the Queen, holds an enquiry into why the Australian ecconomy does not work.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-05
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Peter Pan
Overview: In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling and the fearsome Captain Hook. But the children become the heroes of an even greater story, when Peter Pan flies into their nursery one night and leads them over moonlit rooftops through a galaxy of stars and to the lush jungles of Neverland.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-18
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Waterfront
Overview: Australian dockyard workers go on strike. Immigrant Italian workers are brought in as scab labour. In the midst of all this, an Italian woman meets & falls in love with one of the Australians.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Mr. Reliable
Overview: All Wally Mellish, an ex-convict in 1960s Australia, wants to do is live a quiet life with his girlfriend Beryl. Unfortunately when two police officers come around to disturb this, a misunderstanding quickly becomes out of control, resulting Wally, Beryl and her child being trapped in their house, surrounded by armed police under the impression that Wally is holding everyone hostage. Events quickly spiral into a media circus as, through the siege, Wally - inadvertently - manages to become a symbol for the anti-war movement.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-22
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Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story
Overview: As America struggled through the Great Depression in the 1930s, a little girl with big dimples and indescribable charm danced her way into the hearts of moviegoers around the world.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-18
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December Boys
Overview: For many years, four teenage orphans at an Australian outback convent have watched their younger comrades find new parents, and realize that they may never be adopted. The Reverend Mother sends the four boys away on a seaside vacation, where they meet Teresa and Fearless, a couple who would make perfect parents. The youths compete with one another to be the one Teresa and Fearless decide to adopt.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-14
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One Way Ticket
Overview: Based on a true story, One Way Ticket is about a criminal named Webb. He has been arrested for murder and looks like he will be spending the rest of his days behind bars before he has an affair with a female guard. She helps him escape and they spend the next few days on the run. Can they make it?
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Cody: Fall from Grace
Overview: A jockey is found dead in the street after falling from a balcony of a Hotel. What is thought to be a routine suicide inquiry becomes a murder investigation leading Cody to uncover a race-fixing scam
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-17
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Curtin
Overview: 1941. A country in crisis. A new man in power. Leadership demands and personal demons are set to collide. The story of John Curtin as he faces his first six months as Prime Minister, confronting in quick succession, the tragedy of Pearl Harbour, the fall of Singapore, the bombing of Darwin and a furious battle with Churchill over the deployment of Australian troops. This is a raw and intimate story of a driven and inspirational leader - a man who struggles to battle his own personal demons while serving and protecting a country at war.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-21
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Black and White
Overview: Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation Max admits to the killing. With a legal system compromised by intimidation tactics, the skills of his two gifted but naïve defense lawyers are put to the test.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-31
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